Pluralism and development
Subtitle: studies in access to property in Africa
By: editors, Hanri Mostert and Thomas Bennett
Publisher: Juta
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Claremont [Cape Town, South Africa ]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 333
ISBN-13: 9780702195327
Subjects: Real property; Congresses; Customary law; Land tenure; Law and legislation; Right of property
Other titles: Acta juridica (Cape Town, South Africa)
Notes: "First published as Acta Juridica 2011."

"Pluralism and development : Studies in access to property in Africa, comprises a collection of papers presented at a conference held at the University of Cape Town in 2010."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Access to property in Africa : an introductory survey  -- Thomas Bennett & Hanri Mostert; title: Absolute ownership and legal pluralism in Roman law : two arguments  -- Helen Scott; title: Legal pluralism in Africa : the implications of state recognition of customary laws illustrated from the field of land law  -- Gordon Woodman; title: Legal pluralism and access to land in Nigeria  -- Enyinna Nwauche; title: The changing dynamics of customary land tenure : women's access to and control over land in Botswana  -- Anne Griffiths; title: Taking the gap : "living law land grabbing" in the context of customary succession laws in Southern Africa  -- Chuma Himonga; title: Securing women's property inheritance in the context of plurality : negotiations of law and authority in Mbunzini customary courts and beyond  -- Sindiso Mnisi Weeks; title: Contested power and apartheid tribal boundaries : the implications of "living customary law" for indigenous accountability mechanisms  -- Aninka Claasens; title: Lost in translation : family title in Fingo Village, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape  -- Rosalie Kingwill; title: Land information as a tool for effective land administration and development  -- Gerrit Pienaar; title: Legal pluralism : the investor's view  -- Johann Schiller; title: Promises of future performance and informal-sector transfers of personal property : the example of anglophone Cameroon  -- Claire Moore Dickerson; title: Indigenous-law land rights : constitutional imperatives and proprietary paradoxes -- Anne Pope.